Opinion: The most striking thing about the 2020 race is what’s missing from it
This is Round 15, and I’m Anne Applebaum. Does election forecasting get more accurate from a half-dozen time zones ahead?
The Commentary From where I sit — which is London, sometimes Warsaw, sometimes Berlin or Brussels — the 2020 campaign is only just now beginning to come into focus. For a lot of Europeans, the entry of Joe Biden into the race was an important change: at last, somebody familiar, a former vice president who has been to Europe many times, and not just another senator they’ve never heard of.
That reaction underlines what is, so far, one of the more striking aspects of the campaign: the absence of much foreign policy debate of any kind. The amount of damage President Trump has done abroad — to America’s reputation, to America’s alliances and to American creations such as NATO and the World Trade Organization — may well be greater than the damage he has done inside the United States, where he is still constrained by institutions.
This vacuum does present an opportunity. If Warren, Kamala D. Harris, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Michael Bennet, Beto O’Rourke, Amy Klobuchar or indeed Howard Schultz wants to stand out from the crowd, here’s how: Offer not just a vision of America but a vision of America in the world.
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